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Perth, WA, AU

Perth, Australia

An experienced IT professional with a proven ability for technology innovation, implementing dynamic backup/storage solutions and designing strategic resilient IT systems that deliver significant solutions to meet business requirements. Award winning and respected storage/backup specialist, able to engage and influence stakeholders across a range of.

Leek, Manchester (UK)

• Designed, implemented and supported significant enterprise-wide SAN storage and backup solutions that offered high performance, cross-site resilience and met challenging business service levels in the financial sector.
• Award winning redesign enterprise backup infrastructure from tape to disk as the primary backup target. Lowered recovery point/time objectives. Reduced backup window by 40%. Increased backup success rate to 98%.
• Technical project lead in migrating multi-tiered data between diverse storage arrays, using both array and host-based tools with zero unplanned service down time. Improved performance of critical batch jobs by over.
• Design, support and management of cross-site clustered pair of FAS3240 NetApp controllers, and a Fabric Attached Metro Cluster consisting of two FAS6240 NetApp controllers
• Backup technical consultant in the provision, design and implementation of multiple Data Domain backup devices (DD670/DD890) across several sites that eliminated remote tape handling, increased performance and provided.
• Deputy team leader across two sites. Managed storage capacity, infrastructure budgets, support renewals and pioneered storage/backup strategy. Acted as mentor and guide to fellow site colleagues

Leek, Staffordshire

• A key member of a UNIX and Storage team responsible for the design, build and support of Britannia’s Unix/storage environments. Developed innovative solutions, influenced key stakeholders across the business, providing.
• Planned and implemented the migration of Britannia’s storage infrastructure between two data centres. Achieved with zero unplanned downtime, satisfied regulatory requirements and shaped data centre strategy.
• Devised built and supported storage virtualization environments using innovative tools employed on SUN, EMC and Brocade hardware to utilise space efficient database snapshots to perform business critical application.
• Created the company’s first SAN infrastructure environments using SUN/Oracle and Brocade technology. Reduced reliance on direct attached storage, removed storage complexity, allowed faster service turnover and shaped.
• Implemented a server rationalisation programme, replacing physical servers with Solaris 10 virtual server zones. Streamlined systems integration, shaped server strategy and reduced costs.
• Pioneered Netbackup media server migration to Solaris 10 to utilise TCP/IP network layer improvements that improved backup performance by 30%.

Leek, Staffordshire

• Designed, built and maintained the company’s UNIX server and storage environments. Undertook end-to-end system administration tasks to deliver a reliable, resilient and efficient distributed IT service to customers.
• Succeeded in meeting a target to patch over 200 Solaris servers each quarter
• Applied firmware to server/storage hardware, reduced service downtime, improved reliability

Ba Hons, English And History And Computer Science

Studied English, History and Computer Science.

A Levels, English, History And Law

Studied English, History and Law.